Chapter 400 What's the big deal
The whole story of "Demon Hunting" is based on such a cruel worldview.
After watching the content of the first episode, Guo Lei fell in love with this work.
The beginning of the prologue is a little dull, but that worldview, the cold picture tone, and the wasteland punk style make this animation full of strange charm.
In the second half, Su carried a rifle and calmly slaughtered the wolf pack, as well as the duel with the wolf pack's head wolf, were all very interesting.
The fighting style of "Demon Hunting" is, if Guo Lei describes it, it is the flames in the ice and snow.
Under the cold and cruel style of painting, the battle was so hot, gunfire, blood, broken limbs and bodies...
After reading it, why is it so cool?
So far, Guo Lei has seen many works of Dimension Entertainment. They have always had a variety of styles in their work.
But in short, what they do, except for "Special Events Task Force" with a very special style and niche horror film "Hell Apartment", other works, from animations to TV series to movies, are actually very popular works, almost suitable for groups of all ages.
But "Demon Hunting" is not. If we only look at the picture from the picture scale, this may be the largest work that Dimension Entertainment has made so far.
And if the dark and cruel values and worldview are also included, then its scale will be considered relatively large within the animation range of the whole world.
But in fact, compared with the original novel, the animation has actually been much restrained. Even though the world view is cruel and the picture is bloody, many of the contents in the original work that have been almost completely deleted.
This is not to say that the original work is yellow, but a lot of cruelty is expressed from a sexual perspective, and the animation still kills a lot of this part.
But no matter what, there are still some things that are not suitable for children.
On the regulatory authorities, Weidu Entertainment started lobbying half a year ago when the project was just established.
At the same time, on the platform itself, they themselves have a very moral grading - registered users themselves need to provide identity certificates, requiring that they must be over 18 years old to buy and watch this drama. There is no real-name system when registering, or the registration information provided is for minors under 18 years old, so they cannot watch and purchase this animation.
This can greatly reduce the possibility of minors watching this work.
Of course, it is unlikely to be completely eliminated. After all, it is still difficult to distinguish if a minor uses his parents' ID card to register an account and pays for it; or uses his parents' account directly.
It is impossible to verify your age before watching animations.
But Weidu Entertainment has done its attitude as much as possible.
This thing is not really something that cannot be watched by minors. To be honest, there are too many things like bloody violence on the Internet. What's more, the bloody violence in "Demon Hunting" is not very related to values. No matter what the original novel looks like, at least the world of the animated version of "Demon Hunting" is very dark, but it has never promoted bad values. Judging from the first episode, the protagonist is also a person who is on the right path.
Of course, if the results are getting better, I'm afraid I'll still get a lot of reports and there are a lot of troubles in this regard.
However, for Weidu Entertainment itself, it is necessary to do its own things well, and then actively maintain contact with the relevant review departments and cooperate with the work. I believe that many things can still be solved.
I won’t consider those for now. The first day of Demon Hunting’s online record was pretty good.
From the various discussions about the animation version of "The Demon Hunting" that have been spread on the Internet social media, we can see that although some people do not like this work, most of them sing praises.
For example, Guo Lei is very happy that domestic animation merchants can finally enter this field of animation works with more in-depth content.
"The Demon Hunting" has almost no content in the young, it is an animation purely for adults.
Especially this style and such stories all show the ability of dimensional entertainment.
On the first day of the work being launched, including the pre-orders in the early stage, a total of 800,000 copies were sold - this is about 40 million yuan in revenue.
This seems to be a very good income, but in fact it is still a certain distance from the cost line.
The investment amount of "Demon Hunting" is quite large - at least notably.
The total investment of one season and ten episodes is claimed to be 45 million US dollars - this is equivalent to 300 million RMB.
With so much money, it's enough to shoot a commercial movie with good visual effects.
However, CG animations cost money, that's for sure.
Of course, most of the cost of doing pure CG animations like "Demon Hunting" is paid to "Dimensional Technology", which is considered to be a left hand and a right hand.
According to the effects that Fan Zhe saw when he was trying out the content of this animation, if other companies produce it with the same standards, 45 million US dollars may not be enough.
The original plan for the work was to be launched in mid-November. For this reason, the relevant departments of the company started related publicity work around October.
The cost of promotion and promotion was not high at the beginning. At that time, the entire network was cheering for "Demacia: Glory". It was meaningless to spend money at this time. It would definitely be unreliable to grab your own traffic.
Later, when "Glory" was so popular that it was extremely discussed, the publicity in all aspects was truly beginning to make efforts and intentionally linked the two works together.
After all, they are all produced by Weidu Entertainment.
The effect is pretty good, and it also brought about 800,000 sets sold on the first day.
However, due to the high cost and although it sells well, the shadow of losing money still lingers on the animation department of Dimension Entertainment.
The cost of more than 300 million yuan is calculated based on fifty yuan per set, and 60 million units have to be sold!
This is a bit scary data.
Such a goal, combined with the first day's 800,000 sets, is a bit difficult to complete.
Of course, as an animation work, there are many ways to recover profits from "The Demon Hunting" such as the development of surrounding copyrights, such as the operation of overseas broadcasts...
But in the past, there was no work of Dimension Entertainment that was not profitable. As a result, in "The Demon Hunting Notes", the good guys were going to lose.
Mile felt very uncomfortable.
Chapter completed!